Sunday, August 19, 2012

"The Pain in Spain"


[Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images]



Back from a month-long visit to a former homeland [Australia] it seems to me that Spain has only just survived further economic bailouts...





A simple and unflinching account of exactly why this country got into so much financial trouble can be found at a new, impressive non-profit website called The Global Mail, which is employing some of down-under’s most experienced journalists.

Their European correspondent Eric Ellis, has also examined the “potentially explosive conditions in south-eastern Spain, where illegal African immigrants slave for a pittance in Europe’s salad bowl.


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